PEDIATRICS – PRACTICE TOPICS

I. Semester: ‘Introduction to Pediatrics’

1. Medical history taking
2. Anthropometry, normal physical growth
3. Psychomotor, sensory and social development
4. The healthy newborn
5. Prematurity
6. The healthy infant
7. Characteristics of toddlers
8. Early childhood
9. School-aged children
10. Puberty

II. Semester: ‘Organs, organ systems and diseases in pediatrics’

1. Child BLS
2. Head and neck
3. Chest 4. Abdomen
5. Nervous and musculoskeletal system
6. Differential diagnosis of fever
7. Differential diagnosis of abdominal pain
8. Differential diagnosis of cough
9. Differential diagnosis of convulsions and spasms
10. Critically ill children